Letter: Climate change/global warming

Nick Darwent, New Bern

Thursday

Aug 29, 2013 at 12:01 AMAug 29, 2013 at 2:19 PM

Whatever you want to call it, it's happening, and folks are still talking about it. Climate change has been happening for hundreds of thousands of years. Think about it. A million years ago, where the great plains are today, was a tropical swamp. This has been proven.

Whatever you want to call it, it's happening, and folks are still talking about it. Climate change has been happening for hundreds of thousands of years. Think about it. A million years ago, where the great plains are today, was a tropical swamp. This has been proven. Then the Earth started to cool. After a few hundred thousand years, the ice age started. It lasted for thousands and thousands of years before the Earthfinally started to warm up again. As the ice melted, the ocean levels rose and land was covered by water. Think about the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt. Not the current city. The original city was a thriving trading and learning center. However today it lies under the Mediterranean Sea. See what three thousand years can do?

Another example, closer to home is Cape May, N.J. If you are ever there, go and visit the tourist center. There are photographs of what the Cape May beach was like back in the 1920s and 1930s. What a shock. The photos show a road and a railroad track that are now underwater, and you can see that the WWII watch tower that is now close to the high tide mark, used to be hundreds of yards from the ocean.

When I was in school, we were told of records from medieval times that told of brutal winters. There are records of the English Channel being frozen over.

So, is climate change happening? Of course it is. It has been for thousands of years. Is man to blame? Possibly. There are scientists who can quote facts and figures to prove either side of the argument.

What we, as a worldwide population has to figure out, is what to do to protect future generations from the rising ocean, and is the ocean going to rise enough to warrant our concern. Whose facts and figures are you going to believe?

Nick Darwent, New Bern

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